LEGOs on eBay

Years ago I bought a large Star Wars LEGO set on clearance - at half price, it was $45. I never even opened it, and I checked eBay to see what they were selling for. Lisa and her sister had been selling a bunch of stamping sets recently, so we added my set to their stuff. As of today (Wednesday around noon), the current bid is $177.50, and there's still more than 4 days to go! If you want, you can see the auction here. Too bad I didn't buy more of them. I wonder what I could get for some of my other stuff...

Music on the Desert Island

The other day I was looking through my ancient webpage and decided that my music page needed to be redone. I was also hungering for some new music. I satisfied the latter urge my checking out the nearby library and getting some CDs. For the former, I went ahead and redid my top ten albums list while watching the NFL playoff games after the kids were in bed. If you're interested, you can go check out my music page, but otherwise here's Mike's Desert Island Albums, in alphabetical order:

• The White Album - The Beatles
• Kerosene Hat - Cracker
• Welcome Interstate Managers - Fountains of Wayne
• Fumbling Toward Ecstasy - Sarah McLachlan
• Bang Masters - Van Morrison
• Monster - R.E.M.
• Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens
• Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet
• Rattle and Hum - U2
• The Blue Album - Weezer

I kind of like the fact that the list is bookended by albums that don't have a name and are simply known by their colors. Also, some of the albums on the list are high-quality musical masterpieces (especially Sufjan), while a few of them (like Cracker) are almost guilty pleasures, but simply full of rock 'n roll that I always enjoy. There were lots of honorable mentions, too, and they're all listed on the webpage.